Great hang gliding video presenting a few guys who call themselves ” The Ridge Pack”. Some nice action there, if you are into hang gliding. Enjoy!
Archive for Crazy Aviation
The pilot of this Polish built Mil Mi-2 helicopter came in to land with a high rate of descent, stalling the helicopter close to the ground and as a result the helicopter bit the dust. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger jumped into the record books with his record breaking Excelsior jump, doing so from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before a larger, main parachute opened in the denser atmosphere. He safely touched down in barren New Mexico desert, 13 minutes 45 seconds after he vaulted into the void. Guess you can say this guy had balls of steel… or something because that is really one very impressive jump!
Blue Eagles display at Shoreham a decade ago. The Blue Eagles are one of few professional helicopter aerobatic teams in the world and they fly four Aerospatiale Gazelle helicopters as well as one Westland Lynx helicopter, famous for doing loops and rolls at the various air shows the team performs.
Both of these helicopters are high tech mean machines built to surpass any rival. Airwolf is probably the most advanced helicopter ever built being able to outrun jet fighters and fly halfway around the world. Blue Thunder is the helicopter intended for surveillance and crowd control missions and has powerful armament, stealth technology that allows it to fly virtually undetected and other accouterments. So who will win?
Imagine sitting comfortably in your seat and then hearing this message from the captain: “This is captain Boycott speaking… we’ll be flying to where ever I like for as long as I bloody like cause I’m the captain…”, how would that make you fell. Fly with the best airline in the world… Yorkshire Airlines 
If you are passionate about low level passes here is a compilation of some low level action in various aircraft ranging from high speed military jets to big airliners to small piston aircraft. Enjoy the last part of the low pass compilation series!
If you are passionate about low level passes here is a compilation of some low level action in various aircraft ranging from high speed military jets to big airliners to small piston aircraft. Enjoy the second part of the low pass compilation series!
If you are passionate about low level passes here is a compilation of some low level action in various aircraft ranging from high speed military jets to big airliners to small piston aircraft. Enjoy this compilation series!
The helicopter in question is an Aerospatiale SA330 Puma. The pilot in question is French and if you have visited this site before, you probably know by now that if the words insane, helicopter, Puma and French are thrown in together it can only mean one thing: somewhere in Chad this French pilot had a very good time while at the same time entertaining the guys on the ground. Lucky guys!!! For the rest of us couch potatoes, well… at least we have one very impressive video with this truly crazy low level pass.
